Canadian Trade Unionists Visit VWC

Canadian Trade Unionists Visit VWC

Last Wednesday, a delegation from the Canadian Labour Congress(shown above, with VWC Healthcare Organizer Erika Simard) visited the Workers’ Center. The visit was part of a week-long class called The Changing Face of the Canadian Labour Movement:...

St. Albans Messenger Article on Campaign

Health care as a human right?Written By Michelle MonroeWednesday, July 16, 2008 ST. ALBANS CITY — The Vermont Worker’s Center (VWC) has launched a statewide campaign to re-conceptualize health care as a human right and change what is “politically possible,” according...

Healthcare Campaign Begins

The Workers’ Center is pleased to announced that we have hired a new organizer for the Healthcare is a Human Right campaign: Erika Simard, who lost her healthcare benefits three years ago when Specialty Filaments, the factory she worked at for 22 years, closed...